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Today, in general, the meaning of the word \u00abholy\u00bb is considerably limited. It belongs as a title to those whose church publicly worships. We can privately call for intercession for anyone who has died in God’s grace and is, we hope, in heaven. We pray for the peace of the souls of our deceased parents, relatives, and acquaintances. However, few people realize that we can and should pray to them as well. Death, naturally, interrupts human bodily relationships but perfects spiritual ones, especially true love. We can’t picture placing their acquaintances on the church altar. The Church is entitled to verify the virtues of one who is given to others as a model of life in God and as an intercessor with God in eternity. The canonization process is now governed by legal norms, which, as everyone acknowledges, are very strict. In the past, local service and popular respect were sufficient. However, it is still not critical enough.
\nThe victory of orthodoxy over iconoclasm meant, of course, a great flourishing of respect for the saints in the Christian East. Religion and its manifestations became emotionally, artistically, and culturally enriched.\u00a0The liturgical calendar has penetrated into folk life with proverbs, sayings, folk songs, and scenes. However, it made mistakes in the calendar of saints and included inaccuracies. It is understandable that the new martyrology (list of worshiped saints according to the calendar) is meant to correspond to historical truth. The objection that the Church has long kept in the list the names of saints who did not exist seems less serious. After all, prayer to one saint reaches out to God and to the whole heavenly Church. God then looks at man’s heart and purpose. She certainly appreciates her grandmother’s practice of studying history before praying for the harvest and begging for the intercession of some strange saint on the calendar of saints. The history of the Church is like any other history. Legend and reputation easily complement the image, and the guaranteed message is not always obvious. In the old days, there were the so-called apocrypha, falsified gospels and accounts of the life of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the apostles. That we don’t believe in fairy tales and national legends does not mean that we despise them. They express the soul of the people and, as J. Zeyer used to say, their “inner truth,” which is often truer than the truth of external facts. Even the legendary lives of the saints are such expressions of the people’s soul. Note how, in the past, the church calendar penetrated rural life through proverbs and sayings. St. Gregor throws a scythe into rye, St. Martin arrives on a white horse, etc. Today, they no longer correspond to the way of life or the new reform of the church calendar. Nevertheless, they show us something to strive for again: a living sense of the “communion of the saints,” the unity of the Church on earth and in heaven. In fairy tales, Christ the Lord walked with St. Peter through our country. It is just a popular expression of a fact that is unspeakably more beautiful.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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